But for some reason Tesla has not address another issue that results in my battery running extremely hot almost all the time.
They "addressed" it by keeping battery cooling on all of the time. That warmer than usual temperature is what causes Teslas to catch fires. We almost certainly have lithium dendrites caused by fast charging. If you look up lithium dendrites, they slowly heat up by constantly maintaining an electrical current when the battery shouldn't, like tiny little short circuits.
This form of uncontrollable heating up is probably the indirect way Tesla is trying to detect batteries about to combust and switching those from "Just Chargegate" nerfed (chargegate being the nerf that they hope stops more dendrites from forming) to Batterygate nerfed (batteries they have identified as an imminent mortal danger in need of severe (but cheaply applied) response. They can't detect dendrites, there is no sensor for that. There are a couple of temperature sensors inside of each battery module though, and if one is heating up when it should be cooling down.... Tesla already told us "A single module" caused the explosive conflagration caught on video, and thermal runaway is how that would happen from a single module without physical damage.... thermal runaway caused by a tiny uncontrollable short circuit slowly heating up one cell, then the next cell, then the ones around them, and so on until the heat was enough to expand larger than the size of the car in a nanosecond.
This logical train of thought is also why I haven't parked indoors or near other cars or buildings since I realized what was going on. Tesla
expects batterygate limited cars to burn, can't afford to recall them, and is risking our lives in the hopes they can cover it all up forever. They think they can cool down cells that are trying to burn constantly wit hthese tiny shorts creating nonstop heat, they think they can reduce the amount of energy in the cell enough that it won't be able to jump those tiny arcs any more. They think there aren't any legal objections to covering this all up, that safety is unimportant, that cars won't burn any more and people will be thankful for the secrets.
If you look at every single negative update since those fires focused attention on an inherent flaw within our batteries, it all points at what looks like Tesla believing lithium dendrites are the cause. Reduced charging to slow the formation of more dendrites. Increased cooling for absurdly long amounts of time to keep thermal runaway in check until the battery's SOC falls low enough to hopefully stop shorting, so it can cool down on its own.
If you research lithium dendrites every scientific publication will explain how they are exceptionally dangerous for these reasons. It all fits. Unfortunately, since lithium dendrites are completely undetectable until they are actively trying to start a fire, the only solution to a deployed series of batteries that catch fire from them when used as intended is to replace all of them. Hundreds of thousands of batteries need to be recalled... Tesla realized they can't do that, so they came up with an illegal response: Chargegate/Batterygate. Chargegate tries to mitigate the cause of the fires. Batterygate is trying to mitigate the fires themselves after they are predicted in specific cars. This isn't just a band aid in my mind, the band aid is chargegate. Batterygate is a quarantine - they are hoping to "flatten the curve" of heat propagation low enough that coolant enough can keep temps below the flashpoint.
